The Grand Canal of China (II: Cities)

The Grand Canal of China (II: Cities)

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A GameFellas Non-Pentathlon game.

Not as famous as the Great Wall, it's almost 1800 KM long, and has been built in phases since 722 BC.
Find some of the cities along the route.

Map by Ian Kiu at Wikipedia/Wikimedia.ia/Wikimedia.

Category: History Games

Created by tickman, 17 Aug, 2008

Tags: canal, china, GameFellas, geography, History

Rating: 5, from 3 votes
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BoboLo  1 year ago

A very difficult, but excellent game!

tickman  1 year ago

I have oriented this map so that East is at the top. I decided to do this because the canal is long North to South, and the PurposeGames space is long left to right. So a simple 90 degree rotation, and it fits better, allowing a larger version of the map to be used.

As far as the game goes, it does add an element of unfamiliarity, which is OK because both my canal games are fairly simple.

There is another point worth noting. In the age before compasses became widely used, North was not the top of the map, East was. People would point their maps to the direction of sunrise.

"Orient" was a term for "East", so aligning the map was orienting it, and that's where the term "Orient" picked up the meanings of adjusting or aligning an object, getting one's bearings, etc. That's not why I chose the rotated map, but it certainly fits the theme.

tickman  1 year ago

More about the Grand Canal Here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_of_China

See this map on its home page here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Modern_Course_of_Grand_Canal_of_China.png

The file comes with a GNU Free Documentation license, Version 1.2

Details:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License

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Highscores — The Grand Canal of China (II: Cities)Place 1 - 10
 Player NameScoreTimeDate of Play
1sarah100%0:30.7 min.20 Aug, 2008
2Cris51100%0:30.7 min.18 Aug, 2008
3Tinus100%0:30.9 min.17 Aug, 2008
4bix21100%0:32.9 min.29 Aug, 2008
5BoboLo100%0:34.0 min.20 Aug, 2008
6Itachi100%0:34.9 min.18 Aug, 2008
7Esar100%0:37.1 min.18 Aug, 2008
8Giovanni20100%0:38.7 min.17 Aug, 2008
9Arturo100%0:38.7 min.17 Aug, 2008
10dalle100%1:02.3 min.18 Aug, 2008
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